#mend

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #mend




A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.


W. H. Auden


#anything #because #bores #down #else

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.


Lauren Bacall


#confidence #downhill #feeling #give #reaches

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.


Michele Bachmann


#again #amendment #because #call #constitutional

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.


Spencer Bachus


#back #benefiting #border #burden #citizens

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.


Alec Baldwin


#choices #distinguished #integrity #make #only

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.


Ann Bancroft


#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.


Isaac Barrow


#afford #any #commendation #contempt #due

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.


Drew Barrymore


#being #being alone #between #cause #content

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.


Clara Barton


#ball #between #body #chest #cutting

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?


Clara Barton


#coat #does #ever #his #hole